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Friday, January 27

Erotic Encounters of an Extra Judicial Kind: The Liminal Worlds of Law and Crime in Indian Cinema
Imagining the Future in India at 70 Speaker Series
Time:
12:00 pm
Presenter:
Lawrence Liang
Location:
501 Cathedral of Learning
Sponsored by:
Asian Studies Center along with Film and Media Studies Program, School of Law, Department of English, Cultural Studies Program and Humanities Center

Lawrence Liang is a professor of Law at Ambedkar University and currently Rice Scholar at Yale University. He co-founded Alternative Law Forum (ALF), a public interest and human rights lawyering group in Bangalore with whom he worked for fifteen years. ALF has engaged in strategic litigation on various socio-legal issues, and Liang's work lies at the intersection of law, technology, and culture. He is a member of the Kafila collective and a co-founder of two online video archives: indiancine.ma and pad.ma

Respondents: Jinying Li (Film Studies) and Michael Madison (School of Law)